Standardbred

Originally formed in 2005 during the Pataki administration, with a new iteration in 2007, the New York State Task Force on Retired Race Horses has finished its charge of researching and making recommendations to ensure responsible and humane retirement for horses, both Standardbred and Thoroughbred, retiring from racing at New York tracks.

Liz O'Connell: Coming Up: New York Task Force To Make Recommendations for Race Horse Retirement and Aftercare Liz O'Connell 2011

Originally formed in 2005 during the Pataki administration, with a new iteration in 2007, the New York State Task Force on Retired Race Horses has finished its charge of researching and making recommendations to ensure responsible and humane retirement for horses, both Standardbred and Thoroughbred, retiring from racing at New York tracks.

Liz O'Connell: Coming Up: New York Task Force To Make Recommendations for Race Horse Retirement and Aftercare Liz O'Connell 2011

Joe Atwater is a horseman who breeds, raises, and races Standardbred horses on his ranch in North Carolina.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat Jack Canfield 2009

Joe Atwater is a horseman who breeds, raises, and races Standardbred horses on his ranch in North Carolina.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Dog Jack Canfield 2009

Joe Atwater is a horseman who breeds, raises, and races Standardbred horses on his ranch in North Carolina.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat Jack Canfield 2009

This is a poor edit job by someone who has NO idea what a Standardbred trotter looks like at full speed in harness.

Oslo Grand Prix: Horserse Cosmo7 2009

Joe Atwater is a horseman who breeds, raises, and races Standardbred horses on his ranch in North Carolina.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat Jack Canfield 2009

Joe Atwater is a horseman who breeds, raises, and races Standardbred horses on his ranch in North Carolina.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Dog Jack Canfield 2009

Joe Atwater is a horseman who breeds, raises, and races Standardbred horses on his ranch in North Carolina.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat Jack Canfield 2009

Mr. Leerhsen strains perhaps a bit too hard to pull together multiple strands of social history -- the mania for Standardbred harness racing; the arrival of the automobile and its transformation of small-town America; the melancholy story of a great horse who ended up being dumped, unmarked and unsung, near a Minnesota riverbed.

The Racehorse That America Adored 2008